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Ellen Tilden RN, MS, CNM earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Theory from Reed College and a Master of Science and Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from the University of California, San Francisco. She has practiced as a full-scope CNM since 2000. Ms. Tilden is currently in the second year of her PhD training in the School of Nursing at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland Oregon. She is passionate about identifying risk-appropriate care for healthy pregnant and laboring women for the purpose of reducing unnecessary or harmful interventions during labor, including decreasing primary cesarean delivery rates. Her doctoral research seeks to evaluate if healthy pregnant women’s participation in group prenatal care is associated with higher rates of active labor (versus latent labor) hospital admission and lower rates of cesarean delivery without evidence of harm to the neonate. In 2014, she was published in the Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey as the first author of ‘Group Prenatal Care: Review of Outcomes and Recommendations for Model Implementation.’ Ms. Tilden has received several scholarships and awards during her doctoral training including the Sigma Theta Tau Beta Psi Award, the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) W. Newton Long Award, and both the ACNM 2014 Best Poster Award and the ACNM Division of Research 2014 Best Research Poster Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Theta Tau honor societies.